Forum Post: This group
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 3:51 a.m. EST by RexDiamond
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from Idabel, OK
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claims that OWS was started by Anonymous IRL trolling
"Well, the event was indeed organized by anonymous first as a trolling event and was perhaps taken over by political types. Now it has the same feel as a NION or an ANSWER group and may grow into this more as the political groups take control of the narrative.
To say it was a popular front group from the start is to confuse what is really going on.
What it really was supposed to be was a bunch of stupid basement dwellers with dumb signs like with the anti-scientology protests. It has sense grown past this."
Anonymous was participating and promoting the protests around the Kelly Thomas police brutality/murder case and that support segued into supporting OWS.
A comment by someone on a blog is not authoritative, just like the postings on this forum.
look at the source
More: I follow people on social networks who were involved with the Kelly Thomas matter. I witnessed how the support from Anon grew and then transformed into promoting OWS. That is actually how I learned OWS was coming to New York. (thru social network contacts)
It seems like genuine support to me, but I'm no insider.
research the date Nov 17 1973 and the group n17. That group is connected to this.
I doubt it. That was a spurious Glenn Beck connection pretty much refuted on an earlier thread. I would seriously doubt OWS' origins have anything to do with unrelated events from 40 years ago.
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